COVID-19 in Ukraine: 2,582 new infections, 44 dead, 76,712 active cases

Ukraine has registered 2,582 new COVID-19 cases as of 9 a.m. on Sept. 10. Currently, there are 76,712 active cases across the country.

In the past 24 hours, 44 people have died, 400 were hospitalized and 1,174 patients have recovered. In total, 2,925 people are suspected of having COVID-19.

Laboratories carried out 29,708 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests and 25,795 antibody tests.

The highest numbers of new cases were recorded in Kharkiv Oblast (339), Kyiv city (298), Ternopil Oblast (251), Lviv Oblast (183), Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast (143), Khmelmytsky Oblast (142) and Chernivtsi Oblast (134).

According to the Health Ministry’s latest data from Sept. 9, the number of infections per 100,000 people of the population remains below 40 — the threshold set by the ministry — in only seven out of 25 regions over the past 14 days. Ternopil Oblast has 262 cases per 100,000 people, Chernivtsi Oblast has 226, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast — 171,  Kharkiv Oblast — 132, Kyiv — 120, Lviv Oblast — 108, Odesa and Rivne Oblasts —104.

The total number of COVID-19 cases in Ukraine since the start of the pandemic stands at 145,612. A total of 65,877 patients have recovered and 3,023 have died.

Speaking at a briefing on Sept. 10, Health Minister Maksym Stepanov said that the government has begun purchasing remdesivir, an antiviral medication that is still being tested for effectiveness against COVID-19 but has been shown to speed the recovery of severe patients. It has been authorized for the treatment of COVID-19 in the United States, Australia, the European Union, Japan and India.

After Ivano-Frankvsk and Ternopil, another major hotspot of the outbreak in Ukraine, Chernivtsi city, decided to sue the Cabinet of Ministers for categorizing it as the “red” zone of virus risk, meaning that it must impost the strictest quarantine measures. For several days in a row, parents of schoolchildren in Chernivtsi have been picketing the city council demanding it reopen schools.

Ukraine’s daily COVID-19 cases, deaths and recoveries from Aug. 1 to Sept. 9, 2020. All data were released by the Ministry of Health.

Ukraine’s daily new COVID-19 cases and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests, the most accurate way of diagnosing the novel coronavirus, between Aug. 1 and Sept. 9, 2020.